If you are tired of dealing with damages from customer returns or even shelf pulls maybe you should look into purchasing catalog overstocks?

What are catalog overstocks?

Major catalog companies continuously have last season’s stock that must be liquidated. Overstocks are considered new and 99% of the time still wrapped in the manufacturers original poly bags! When buying catalog overstocks you will be dealing with brand new merchandise!

Most of the time pallets of overstocks are available and you will have the opportunity to review manifests when buying direct from the catalog retailer. The only drawback is simply the minimum purchase requirements’ imposed by the catalog liquidation department. Most catalog retailers will not sell in small lots and the typical order must be multiple pallets, if not truckload quantities.

There are a few liquidators who specialize in reselling smaller quantities of catalog overstocks and while researching this blog post today I found a great deal on small lots of Chadwick’s (Women’s apparel) catalog overstocks. In fact most 100 piece lots can be purchased for about $1-$1.50 per item!

Here is a link, but please follow my instructions to find this seller:

1. Once at Liquidation.com, go to the search field and search by Product Category (Chose Apparel)
2. Scroll down and look for a listing that looks like the picture below stating Catalog Overstocks and the seller STR_NationalSupply

This apparel would be great as a clearance item in your small clothing store or on eBay. I did some research on eBay today looking at the completed auctions for Chadwick’s apparel and there were a a few that were selling in the $7 – $12 range. This is not huge, but I think a small lot of Chadwick’s mixed in with other branded apparel would make a great inventory for eBay sellers.

If you are looking for other sources for small lots of catalog apparel you might check with Via Trading who sells Victoria Secrets and United Auction, who distributes catalog overstocks from the Haband and the Blair apparel catalog.